Miliband announces tuition fee cap

Ed Miliband has declared that the cap on tuition fees should be dropped by a third in one of his biggest policy decisions as Labour leader

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The maximum university fees would be cut by a third under Labour, Ed Miliband
has announced.

The Labour leader said that the cap on tuition fees should be dropped by
£3,000 to £6,000, one of the biggest policy decisions that Miliband has made
during his year as leader.

Speaking to the Andrew Marr Show, he said: “I’ve said let’s not go ahead with
the bank tax cut that the Government is planning. Let us use that money
instead to cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000.”

He stopped short of saying that the policy would definitely make his party's
2015 manifesto, but added: “We are very committed to it, the election’s
three-and-a-half years away, if we can do more by the time of the election
we will. But this is an important first step.